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Equal participation of women and men in engineering occupations is still a major challenge for the European Union. Women participation in engineering appears as a key-issue for European economical and technical development, as well as a central achievement towards gender equality and social justice. In most European countries, female graduates proportionately outnumber male graduates.
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Arrizabalaga, E., Gómez, A., Sánchez, B. (2012). Interdisciplinarity Towards Gender Equality in Engineering and Technology Education. Recommendations. In: Béraud, A., Godfroy, AS., Michel, J. (eds) GIEE 2011: Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-982-4_28
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